Melbourne City trash the Jets to end potential fairy-tale run to the finals

Melbourne City have ended the Newcastle Jets’ final hopes with a 4-0 thrashing at CB Smith Reserve, as the southern team looked to stay in the hunt for their own playoffs story in 2019.

The defeat continues a worrying trend for Craig Deans’ outfit – the girls in red and blue have never recorded a victory against City, and the Melbourne squad has scored fifteen goals to the Jets’ three in their last four meetings.

Yukari Kinga opened the scoring off a spenalty – conceded by Cassidy Davis – that Britt Eckerstrom guessed the direction on correctly, but the effort was too strong to stop.

City snagged a second 38 minutes in off a corner whipped in from Elise Kellond-Knight, finding an unmarked Steph Catley who slammed her first W-League goal of the season home with a header.

Melbourne slammed their third home through Kinga, who completed her brace off a Helen Caceres cross that found Theresa Nielsen, and the Dane was able to put City’s double-scorer through on an open net.

City rounded out their four-goal onslaught with a series of quick passes that found Hailie Mace in the centre of the box, and the new signing simply had to tap the ball home to claim Melbourne’s final goal.